Stakes are high in the coming election

Voters across Barbados have a critical decision to make on Thursday, May 24th.

“Whether you will re-elect the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) to office and therefore guarantee the continued development of this country. Or whether you would gamble with your future by experimenting with a collection of self seekers in the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) and therefore put Barbados at risk,” says Prime Minister the Right Hon. Freundel Stuart.

He was at the time addressing Sunday night’s DLP St James South National Meeting at Thorpes, in support of the candidacy of Donville Inniss, as well as to promote the platform of the Democratic Labour Party.

According to Stuart, this week’s general election is perhaps the most critical and historic in post-independence Barbados.

He is therefore urging all eligible voters to exercise their right to vote.

“I want to say that staying home on May 24th is not an option opened to any of you. To stay home, is to choose and choices always carry consequences. The vote which we are calling on you to leave home and to go and exercise was not a gift to you or to any of us by benefactors at any time in this nation’s history. That vote had to be fought for; people lost their lives while fighting for it…”.

“You can be sure that the people whose interest are going to be protected by the Barbados Labour Party, should they be elected to office, are not going to stay home on Thursday. They understand that the stakes are high in this election and that your vote is really a vote in affirmation of your interest,” he stressed.

“It is not only the commercial classes and special interest groups in this country that have interest to protect. We all have interest to protect and therefore in the same way that privileged groups in this society can see that their interest are better protected by the Barbados Labour Party than by the Democratic Labour Party, those not so privileged need to be able to see with equal clarity, that their interest are better protected by the Democratic Labour Party than by the Barbados Labour Party… and therefore leave home on Thursday from 6 am to 6 pm and go vote for Donville Inniss and the Democratic Labour Party.” (TL)

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